... need to do such things? Were they all on the same page without needing to state it? Or is it simply that none of this got put down on paper? The most frequently used techniques were bribery, propaganda and manipulation. Phoney political movements and parties were created. This continued into the 1980s when the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) – allegedly, says the author – began funding one of the Islamic groups in Pakistan to spread Islamic literature among the Soviet republics with large Islamic populations. (p . 225) And there were phoney radio stations, newspapers, pamphlets, faked printed material of every kind, with the Information Research Department (IRD), the ...

... redaction, which is half an inch long, I've been able to compare it to the typeface for 'Major General Sinclair'. This has enabled me to conclude that the second attendee was Commander Kenneth Cohen, as his surname is five letters long as is the redaction. At the time of the meetings, Commander Cohen held the position within SIS of 'controller of Europe' – an absolute shoe-in as an attendee. Kenneth Herman Salaman Cohen joined SIS in 1936 and served until 1953. As well as English, he spoke French, German and Russian and received French, Belgian, American and Czech medals of recognition for his war service. His career at MI6 included the ...

... way invented (or re-invented) the computer. The claim is often made that they shortened the war by up to two years. Hastings is sceptical of this, though he corroborates the general view of their brilliance. This stands out particularly by contrast with the stupidity of Britain's main overseas espionage organisation at that time, MI6 (SIS), staffed by 'men of moderate abilities, drawn into the organization by the lure of playing out a pastiche of Kipling's "Great Game", and often after earlier careers as colonial policemen. ' This was natural. 'You wouldn't want to suppose, would you', Harry Hinsley – once of Bletchley and later Master of St ...

... possibly gather where the names of MI6 officers have been deliberately released into the public domain by the UK government itself, including the four examples available from the 'Our history' page on the MI6 website!3 More anon. 2 Email from casework office at ICO, June 12, 2017. 3 See <https://www.sis.gov.uk/our-history.html>. ...

... British spooks' favourite tame academic. One of the commercial sponsors – to the tune of about £1 ,000 – of said seminar was a new academic publishing outfit, Veruscript, whose founders are Russian.1 9 Is it a front for Russian intelligence? Not that anyone can demonstrate; but that didn't prevent people – including former SIS chief Richard Dearlove – resigning from the forum because... well, just in case, I suppose.2 0 And Professor Andrew resigned from the board of the publishing venture, despite describing the allegations of Russian influence as ridiculous.21 Turns out the money was coming from a Russian 17 Transcript at <http:// ...

... resulted in short pieces in the Guardian on page 14 and in the Independent on p. 22. Job done: report out and no-one paid any attention. The following paragraphs are from chapter 3 of that report.6 para 391 We are satisfied that it was not until 1980 that the RUC Special Branch, MI5, the SIS and Army Intelligence became aware that [William] McGrath had been sexually abusing residents at Kincora, and they learnt of that when it became the 4 <http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/kincora- abuse-probe-disarray-as-second-witness-colin- ...

... imperative of the need for speed to prevent Benghazi falling meant that we were committed to conflict in an imperfect world. '1 3 Richards simply dodges the question and no-one on the committee asks him what he means. And no wonder he evaded it: for it was the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) that MI6 (SIS) had been dickering with since the 1990s and which was the subject of some of the most disgusting real politik in which the British state has been recently engaged.14 The committee's report is the most recent version of the received story: it was a humanitarian exercise, based on a false alarm about threatened atrocities,1 5 which ...

... undertaken without the consent of the British government'.2 During most of the 1960s, David Stirling and his associates in the British mercenary field were involved in operations in the Yemen that were, at the very least, covertly approved by the government of the United Kingdom. Stephen Dorril's book on MI6 has a chapter that details how both SIS and GCHQ provided what was, at times, significantly more than discrete assistance.3 The entire cadre of Stirling's assistant commanders in Watchguard appear to have been current or 'recently retired' members of either the regular 22nd Special Air Service (SAS) regiment (e .g . Lt-Col. John Woodhouse) or the Territorial 21st ...

... listed. I contacted the National Archives press office. The relevant archivists were unable to locate the document. Since it appears unlikely that The Times has outright invented such an important document, the indication is that it came from somewhere other than the National Archives and The Times has obfuscated its true origin for reasons unknown. Cameron, Johnson and SIS I've never quite known what to make of David Cameron's claim that he was 'groomed' by the KGB during the mid-1980s. When he was vetted to become special adviser to Norman Lamont in the Treasury in 1990, Cameron supposedly told MI5 about the incident.4 4 Speaking to students at the University of Moscow in 2011, ...